Past tense of congee; to take a formal leave or receive a conge.
From 'congee,' an alternate spelling of 'conge,' plus the -ed past tense suffix.
Congee as a verb (meaning to take formal leave) is even rarer than conge—you'd almost never see this in modern English except in historical fiction or scholarly writing.
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